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Science & Health (page 153)

Salon covers science and health news through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

Scientist pipetting a sample of a new drug formula into a vial during a clinical trial with the infectious disease on the computer screen. (Getty Images)

Genomic surveillance in the COVID era

Alexander Sundermann, Lee Harrison - The Conversation
COVID-19 home rapid test kits are seen on a shelf at a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Orlando, Florida. Walmart and Kroger are raising the price for the hard-to-find BinaxNOW rapid tests after the directive from the White House to sell them at cost has expired. Test kits that were formerly sold for $14 will now retail for $19.88 at Walmart and $23.99 at Kroger. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Where are all the at-home COVID tests?

Nicole Karlis
Group of People with differing brain patterns (Getty Images)

Where are memories stored in the brain?

Don Arnold - The Conversation
Joe Rogan is seen in the commentary booth during the UFC 220 event at TD Garden on January 20, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Docs urge Spotify to stop Rogan misinfo

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
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Plastic Bottles (Getty Images)

Why can't humanity quit BPA?

Matthew Rozsa
Dropped ice cream cone (Getty Images/Chris Clor)

Our evolutionary love of sugar

Stephen Wooding - The Conversation
A United Airlines employee stands at a counter with no customers in line at a nearly deserted Los Angeles International Airport due to the coronavirus pandemic (David McNew/Getty Images)

Science of preventing flight disruptions

Teresa Carr - Undark
President Joe Biden addresses reporters at a press gaggle. (Getty Images)

DOE slammed for "false" plastic solution

Joseph Winters - Grist
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Balancing emojis (Getty Images/Huber & Starke)

Your fear and disgust are protecting you

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mister Ed the talking horse and Alan Young in a scene from the television series 'Mister Ed', circa 1960. (The Mister Ed Company/Getty Images)

Can any animal "speak" with buttons?

Nicole Karlis
Child getting vaccinated (Getty Images/vgajic)

Effort to vaccinate children stalls

Rachana Pradhan, Hannah Recht - KFF Health News
Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky, Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy, and Timothée Chalamet as Yul in "Don't Look Up" (Niko Tavernise/Netflix)

Is "Don’t Look Up" a win for climate?

Eve Andrews - Grist
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Throwing data and ideas into the brain (Getty Images/z_wei)

Your brain is fine, so stop "hacking" it

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tampons and vaccines (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Finally, answers on COVID vax & periods

Nicole Karlis
In this photo illustration the Humana Inc. logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

App attempts to break bankruptcy barrier

Blake Farmer - KFF Health News
A young girl sick in bed (Sac C Wat'hn Buy Thna Thwi Phl / EyeEm / Getty Images)

How omicron is affecting our kids

Nicole Karlis
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A boy arrives for the first day of school wearing a face mask (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Is my cloth mask good enough for Omicron

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Cannabis plant (Getty Images)

New study: Cannabis may prevent COVID

Brett Bachman
Sunset over crashing ocean currents (Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Oceans in 2021: Hotter than ever

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Rat poison trap box (Getty Images/richard johnson)

Animal traps: A moral, scientific debate

Michael Schulson - Undark
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Close up of test tubes with toxic labels (Getty Images)

8 newly-flagged carcinogens: report

Joseph Winters - Grist
Man talking to his dog (Getty Images/Westend61)

Your dog has potential to be bilingual

Nicole Karlis
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SCOTUS messy vaccine mandate hearing

Julie Rovner - KFF Health News
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about on the third plank of his Build Back Better economic recovery plan for working families, on July 21, 2020, in New Castle, Delaware. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Is BBB a "secret" Green New Deal?

Carl Pope
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